u/Kind_Outlandishness8

So my sister in law is a V-tuber and she’s hosted two art contests across all her socials. One for Valentine’s Day and one for Christmas. Her requirements for both were for the art to be fully colored, full body (two bodies, one for her character and one for her hubby’s for valentines) and full background. For both she had offered the winner a $35 Amazon gift card. The losers received nothing.

For the first one on Christmas she had received 9 submissions. Me and a few other people who have done and received commissions worked together and set reasonable prices for each of the artworks and the total cost of all the submissions for this contest was $360. The winning piece we agreed would be worth around $65-$70 (as it was fully colored, full body and a completely hand drawn background with high visible skill.) The artist had mentioned when submitting it that it took them the entire week deadline to finish it. They were only paid $35.

For the second contest the rules and prize was the same. This time around she received 10 pieces all with considerably more skill involved than the last so the full price of all the art submitted was estimated to be around $740. The winning piece was worth around a whopping $110-$125, no doubt about it as it was fully colored, had a hand drawn background, had 1 full body, 2 full chibi bodies, and 7 bust drawings of her and her husband’s characters in the piece with HIGH skill involved. Again she only paid the winner $35.

She is still sharing and using ALL of the art from both contests to boost and advertise her V-tubing channel without compensating the artists involved and for the ones she DID compensate she didn’t do it adequately. She had a habit of doing this, using people for free labor (she had done the same to me with her wedding. I did 50 cupcakes, built the RSVP & invitation website, decorated 50 bubble wands and did her makeup because she had mentioned she would pay me. She didn’t even credit or pay me.) She’s even asking our brother in law to make her a furry tail as a favor, again, not discussing payment at all. I WOULD show you the art but this would effectively doxx both her and me and I don’t want her to start getting a wave of hate and I want to stay as incog as I can on this. Would you guys consider this a scam?

BIL treating my cat wrong.

As the title suggests my BIL (M18) has been consistently mistreating my cat. My cat sometimes throws up, I think she may have some stomach issues and we are going to get her checked soon but a few times my BIL has accidentally stepped in the puke (wasn’t cleaned up cause nobody noticed it) and he will literally be like “Luna you piece of shit” and chase her to try and grab her and shove her face in the puke and I tell him to leave her alone and he says “it’s the only way she’ll learn.” So he tried to grab her and she obviously scratches ts outta him cause she’s scared and he gets even more infuriated and says he’s gonna punch her. I told him “it’s not her fault that she threw up.” And my other BIL who’s witnessing this (14M) goes “I mean….l”. So I told him “what if someone did that to you, how would you feel?” And he deadass looks at me and says “I wouldn’t care.” The newest occasion is just now, my BIL (18M) is calling my cat disgusting because he has cat hair on his bed, then he says he’s gonna buy a crate just for her and put her in it at night to stop her from going in his bed but like, he literally takes her to his bed to cuddle with him (she’s a very cuddly cat.) and at night she sleeps with my man and I. So my man tells him “gets satin or silk sheets, the hair doesn’t stick.” And BIL goes “I shouldn’t HAVE to get those stupid sheets in the first place.” Then WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT US TO DO THEN.” It’s not our fault that you wash your sheets once every 4 months. It’s not our fault you LET her into your bed in the first place. Mind you this cat was originally BIL’s cat, BIL’s cat gave birth and Luna was one of the babies but since my MIL didn’t allow him to keep the babies since he never takes fucking care of his pets (never takes out the litter or buys them food), he had a week to rehome them. He was going to keep Luna for himself otherwise. We took Luna since MIL was literally going to dump her on the street since he couldn’t find a home for them. At the time we had our own apartment and we lost it (long story I’m not gonna say here) so we moved into MIL’s place and she let us keep Luna with us. I HATE how he talks to my cat. He LOVES to show her off too, when his GF is over he shows Luna off and boasts about how good she lives with us as if he’s the one doing the work but when it comes to he just talks shit and is lowkey abusive and I feel like it’s not my place to put him in his place since this isn’t my home. MIL won’t put him in his place and my man sometimes doesn’t have a fucking spine to either (I chew him out a lot on this.)

But yeah that is happening and it sucks and I want to look for another place ASAP so my cat can stop being mistreated plus other things but I’m not in a good financial spot to do that.